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Re:Being a female software engineer by rachelbythebay on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @03:46AM (#5212059)
Google? 40% female in eng? I don't think so. You wouldn't be able to find that number online since it's embarrassingly low, and they guard it jealously even internally.

In 4.5 years on 3 different projects (SRE team, dev team, different dev team), I was all alone. I should tally up all of the names of my coworkers and see just how it worked out. People came and went but it was always guys replacing guys.

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Re:Being a female software engineer by femsoftwareeng on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @01:42PM (#5214824)
Agh, I was hoping I was wrong. This is more in line with my experience.

It's a shame they don't release the numbers because it's easy for "40%" to float around the Zeitgeist, concealing a very real problem.

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